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  • Medieval Answers to Modern Problems
    Albrecht Classen
    The Middle Ages were not only times of military conflicts, the formation of nations, and the rise of the Catholic Church, but also an era defined by profound exploration of what is magnificent and sublime in all aspects of life, including spirituality, aesthetics, architecture, ethics, religion, and philosophy.Through a carefully curated collection of readings and sources, Medi...
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    140,40 €

  • Haikus
    Albrecht Classen
    Albrecht Classen presents here yet another volume of his own poetry, haiku(s), along with a selection of his photos from the Sonoran Desert, Vermont, Germany, and Hawai’i. In fact, the photos served as the inspiration for the haikus, so this volume represents the intimate interaction of image and word to reveal some of the deep secrets in all our existence. The haiku is an intr...
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    37,66 €

  • Satirische Weltbetrachtungen
    Albrecht Classen
    Wer hätte sich nicht schon mal über die lieben Mitmenschen geärgert, über sie gelacht, oder sich einfach gewundert. Und dann, im Spiegel, sich selbst dort entdeckt und als schuldig befunden? Hier bietet Albrecht Classen erneut eine Sammlung von satirischen oder schlicht humorvollen Essays, in denen viele verschiedene Lebenssituationen teils in Arizona, teils auf Hawai’i, in Deu...
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    44,41 €

  • Secret in Medieval Literature
    Albrecht Classen
    The Secret in Medieval Literature explores the many secret agents, actions, creatures, and other beings influencing human existence. Medieval poets had a clear sense of the alternative dimension (the secret) and allowed it to enter quite frequently into their texts. ...
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    51,08 €

  • Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
    Albrecht Classen
    Only a highly comparative study of medieval literature can help us to comprehend how much fundamental ideas and concepts were shared throughout the entire period. The idea of the trail as an epistemological vehicle for the protagonists proves to be critical in reaching a deep understanding of medieval values and ideals. ...
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    76,92 €

  • Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature
    Albrecht Classen
    Toleration and Tolerance in Medieval European Literature aims to examine and unearth the critical investigations of toleration and tolerance presented in literary texts of the Middle Ages. ...
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    82,28 €

  • Water in Medieval Literature
    Albrecht Classen
    This book uncovers the tremendous importance of water for European medieval literature, focusing on a large number of writers and poets. Water proves to be highly meaningful in religious, literary, and factual narratives insofar as it emerges as a central catalyst to bring about epiphany and epistemological and spiritual illumination. ...
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    58,06 €

  • Forest in Medieval German Literature
    Albrecht Classen
    The Forest in Medieval German Literature analyzes the topic of the “forest” through some of the best and lesser known examples of medieval German literature, approaching them through modern ecocritical issues that are paired with premodern perspectives. ...
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    65,63 €

  • Medieval Answers to Modern Problems
    Albrecht Classen
    The Middle Ages were not only times of military conflicts, the formation of nations, and the rise of the Catholic Church, but also an era defined by profound exploration of what is magnificent and sublime in all aspects of life, including spirituality, aesthetics, architecture, ethics, religion, and philosophy. Rather than focusing extensively on historical events, as is done i...
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    135,02 €

  • The Poems of Oswald Von Wolkenstein
    Albrecht Classen
    This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading poets of his time and created some of the most exciting, experimental, and also deeply religious-conservative poetry of the entire Middle Ages and far beyond. German scholarship and mus...
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    47,95 €

  • Meeting the Foreign in the Middle Ages
    Albrecht Classen
    This collectoion brings together an outstanding group of historical, cultural, and literary scholars to investigate the complicated, nuanced, and often surprising union and desire and dread associated with the figure of the foreign Other in the Middle Ages--represented variously by Muslims, Jews, heretics, pagans, homosexuals, lepers, monsters, and witches. Exploring the divers...
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    106,57 €

  • Violence in Medieval Courtly Literature
    Albrecht Classen
    Although courtly literature is often associated with a chivalrous and idyllic life, the essays in this collection demonstrate that the quest for love in medieval courtly literature was underpinned by ...
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    103,83 €

  • The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages
    Albrecht Classen
    The computer revolution is upon us. The future of books and of reading are debated. Will there be books in the next millennium? Will we still be reading? As uncertain as the answers to these questions might be, as clear is the message about the value of the book expressed by medieval writers. The contributors to the volume The Book and the Magic of Reading in the Middle Ages ex...
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    94,40 €

  • Late-Medieval German Women’s Poetry
    Albrecht Classen
    Although there were a number of outstanding women writers of the late middle ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Classen proves this to be a misconception, presenting here a selection of secular love songs and religious hymns composed by fifteenth- and sixteenth-century German women poets, translated for the first time. Many seem to have left their works ...
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    26,93 €

  • The Poems of Oswald Von Wolkenstein
    Albrecht Classen
    This book offers the first complete English translation of the poems by the late-medieval German (Tyrolean) Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376/1377-1445). Oswald von Wolkenstein was one of the leading poets of his time and created some of the most exciting, experimental, and also deeply religious-conservative poetry of the entire Middle Ages and far beyond. German scholarship and mus...
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    66,39 €